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Your Buck Teeth Are Beautiful Too

by miss marigold While growing up, I had this friend who was really proud of her looks. Okay, on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being Quasimodo and 10 being Helen of Troy), I'd give this girl like, a 6 1/2. It's not like she was…
Jonas Brothers: Millionaire "Rock Stars" Saving Themselves

by miss marigold We've officially entered into the regime of Disney - a Disneyocracy, if you might. The other day, while dining with a friend in NYC's trendy West Village area, I paused from my glorified quesadillas to…
Sheltering Kids From Sex Does Not Stop Them From Having It

by miss marigold Confession: I have no idea what goes on in a sex ed class, besides stretching condoms over unripe banans, which I learned about from Grease 2. Everything I know about sex I learned from schoolyard gossi…
Do People Make Friends Just To Evangelize?

by miss marigold I grew up in an environment where we were encouraged to witness at every opportunity. Oh look, the new kid in school is an agnostic. Let's go share Jesus! Are you stuck in the airport during a flight de…
Weirdest Christian Alternatives to Secular Products

by miss marigold If my post about Christian t-shirt slogans didn't make it clear enough, I'm not a huge fan of blatantly Christian products simply because the overall tacky factor elicits more LOLs than "Praise Jesus"-…
Christian Denomination Drama

by miss marigold The lively discussion generated by yesterday's QOTD post about pets and the rapture reminded me of a pretty embarrassing "church faux pas" I made while teaching Catechism classes for children prepa…
I Watch Sex and the City...Without Remorse

by miss marigold Toward the end of Monday's entry, Waiting on the Lord or Being a Wimp?, I compared my secular dating experiences to Sex and the City. HazeL_eyed_mami08 responded with this comment: I'm going to get a li…
Is it Bad For Christians to Read Horoscopes?

by miss marigold After growing up in a tight-knit, conservative Christian community where even Harry Potter was frowned upon, I reacted a little bit strongly when my college roommates started bragging about their horosc…
Does Prince Charming Carry a Bible? Pt. 2: Why My Mom Was Right About Boaz

by miss marigold Continued from Waiting on the Lord or Being a Wimp? So does Prince Charming carry a Bible? In my experience, no. It's not that there aren't eligible Christian males in my age group, but rather, that I'…
Does Prince Charming Carry a Bible?, Pt. 1: Waiting on the Lord or Being a Wimp?

by miss marigold I've mentioned before that my mom envisions her future son-in-law as a modern-day incarnation of Boaz: generous, protective, capable of supporting his lady love, and most of all, a man of God. Growing…